BS: Interesting Facts

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Joe_F
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 11:18 PM

Donuel: The inventor of the drug war was not Richard Nixon, but someone far earlier and viler. His name was Harry Anslinger, and he was a prohibition agent who needed a new racket after repeal.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 02:27 PM

When Jon Sebastian wrote 'Nashville Cats', he used the number 1352 as the number of guitar players in Nashville purely at random, because it fitted the rest of the verse. Years later, he checked union membership, records of session men hired by studios and anything else he could find, and discovered that in the year he wrote the song, there were near enough 1,352 guitar pickers in Nashville.


Spooky, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: *Laura*
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 03:19 PM

that thing that Bee-Dubya said you can't do (rotate your right foot clockwise and your right had anti-clockwise at the same time)
I can do it.

xLx

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: GUEST,Davetnova
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 09:49 AM

twelve plus one is an anagram of eleven plus two

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: GUEST,3refs
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 08:33 AM

Didn't log in! Which was also my prerogative!

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 08:31 AM

Prerogative. It was mine to look up!

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: GUEST,Ana. L. Fin.
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 07:52 AM

To immobilise it, just drop your freshly caught eel onto a newspaper!

(The Sun or Daily excess/Mail are the best slime containers.)HeeHee!

It does work - honest...

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Oct 06 - 06:42 PM

The perpetual criminal war on drugs was begun by Richard Nixon.

The perpetual religious war was begun by George Bush

Both cocaine and marijuana were demonized by the US government as drugs that caused black men to rape white women.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: chrisgl
Date: 01 Oct 06 - 02:53 AM

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Gurney
Date: 30 Sep 06 - 10:51 PM

All eels are difficult to hold, but the one Joe F mentions is the marine Blind Eel. If you catch one with a hook, it 'winds' the slime up it's body and onto the line. I only ever caught one, and hope never to catch another.

The knot is properly called a Half Hitch, and anglers don't want them, either.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Amos
Date: 30 Sep 06 - 10:36 PM

Excel says that 111111111*111111111 =12,345,678,987,654,300.00

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Sep 06 - 10:52 PM

YOU are a genius. THANK you from the bottom of my . . . well, thank you.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: bobad
Date: 29 Sep 06 - 10:44 PM

One word....silk.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Sep 06 - 10:43 PM

Absolutely NOT. It chafes too much.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: bobad
Date: 29 Sep 06 - 10:40 PM

What, keeping your socks on?

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Sep 06 - 10:37 PM

I'll have to try that the next time I have sex.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Joe_F
Date: 29 Sep 06 - 10:34 PM

There is a kind of eel that, when grabbed, secretes a thick slippery slime all over its body, making it hard to keep hold of. After it escapes, it cleans the slime off by tying a knot in one end of itself and working it to the other end.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Gurney
Date: 29 Sep 06 - 03:43 AM

BillD, I seem to remember that several codfish have an odd number of 'whiskers.' One is an odd number.

The old tale of there being lots of sheep for every human in NZ is a load of cobblers. I've been here for 35 years and no-one's given me any!

I thought it was a Hamster who's eyes fell out if you held him up by his tail?

We've owned nine cats, and the only ones that could recognise a picture were Siamese. Both of them.

Whales were once land animals.

Subject: gullible
From: GUEST,guest
Date: 29 Sep 06 - 12:34 AM

i have an essay over gullible. what does "prec. Cf GULLABLE" in the definition mentioned somewhere in these messages mean?? i have the exact definition.. mayble i should just change the word of my essay.. (its an essay with a word that is intresting to us)

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Splott Man
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 08:58 AM

The equals symbol (=) was invented by a Welshman, Robert Recorde in 1557.

The pi symbol (sorry, can't type it) was first used by a Welshman, William Jones in 1706.

Diw, there's posh!

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 28 Aug 06 - 12:13 AM

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 27 Aug 06 - 11:35 PM

If you lie down with dogs, you'll stink in the morning.

The pen is mightier than the pigs.

A penny saved is not much.

Don't bite the hand that looks dirty.

Two's company, three's the Musketeers.

Don't put off till tomorrow what you put on to go to bed.

Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, cry and you have to blow your nose.

If at first you don't succeed, get new batteries.

You get out of something only what you see in the picture on the box.

When the blind leadeth the blind get out of the way.

Better late than pregnant!

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: 282RA
Date: 27 Aug 06 - 10:17 PM

"Incorrectly" is never spelled correctly.

Also when I first read the title of this thread, I swear I thought it said, "Interesting Farts."

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: mack/misophist
Date: 27 Aug 06 - 07:47 PM

Not only is a snail's sex organ at the front end, it's a calcite dart that each snail shoots at the other. Somehow. Then the target snail absorbs the dart and the genetic material attached to it.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 27 Aug 06 - 03:46 AM

'and providing a pair of socks allowed 80 per cent rather than 50 per cent to reach a climax while their brains were scanned."'

So, how much are socks and scanners going for?

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Gurney
Date: 26 Aug 06 - 11:59 PM

A snail's sex organ is also in its head (or neck. where does one start and the other end?) And that is the organ it does the business with!


You can stop auto/car oil-leaks with mint humbugs.
Ditto petrol/gasolene leaks with chewing-gum.
Emergency fix for a slipping clutch (manual gearbox) is Fullers Earth. But it will block up the Bendix-gear.

My Dad told me these. The only one I've used is Fullers Earth. It worked, but made for interesting driving. NO slip in the clutch. None.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: bobad
Date: 26 Aug 06 - 09:27 PM

"The experiments also revealed a rather surprising effect: both men and women found it easier to have an orgasm when they kept their socks on. Draughts in the scanning room left couples complaining of "literally cold feet", and providing a pair of socks allowed 80 per cent rather than 50 per cent to reach a climax while their brains were scanned."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,589-1662280,00.html

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 26 Aug 06 - 09:00 PM

"If the pianist is upside down with their back to the piano keyboard they should (if they rotate their wrists thru 180)be able to play as normal."

Been done before.

You can also play a button or piano accordion 'upside down'.

You can also play a pennywhistle by rotating it so that the holes face toward you too.


The Three Key Secret Tricks:

Practice!

Practice!

Practice!

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: terrier
Date: 26 Aug 06 - 06:43 PM

I've just found this thread, i've read it from start to finish and now my brain hurts!
Try this one:

if a pianist turns their back to the keyboard,(with their hands behind them)it's difficult to play because the keyboard is back to front, OK! if the pianist crosses their arms whilst having their back to the piano, it makes playing a little easier. If the pianist is upside down with their back to the piano keyboard they should (if they rotate their wrists thru 180)be able to play as normal.
Anybody care to try it???

T

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: bobad
Date: 26 Aug 06 - 04:19 PM

I guess that it could be said that they are on the ball.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Bert
Date: 26 Aug 06 - 04:16 PM

...The octopus' testicles are located in its head...

That's funny - I know some guys whose brains are located in their testicles.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 25 Aug 06 - 11:08 PM

Thanks bobad - now I know what word to use in some of those threads...

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: bobad
Date: 25 Aug 06 - 10:49 PM

The octopus' testicles are located in its head.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 25 Aug 06 - 10:40 PM

Apparently dissolving Mentos in Diet Coke gives spectacular nucleation.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Nick
Date: 25 Aug 06 - 03:12 PM

Any piece of paper can be folded as many times as you like.

As long as you unfold it.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: GUEST,mack/misophist
Date: 25 Aug 06 - 10:47 AM

A couple of months ago a video of the necco wafer/coca cola volcano was popular on the internet. Explanations were scarce. Here's the answer: nucleation. ie. In any gas saturated solution (coca cola) the gas tends to separate out on the sides of the container. If one places a sponge shaped solid in the liquid (necco wafers). the gas may separate out so fast that a veritable eruption occurs. I think the video showed it spurting 10 feet into the air.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Bill D
Date: 25 Aug 06 - 10:37 AM

"What are imitation rhinestones?"

missed that one before before...but I knew a woman once who eloped to Oklahoma, and 2 weeks later had the marriage annuled....she later explained "I should have had a premonition when I noticed that the ring we stopped to buy in a small shop had an inscription inside that read "**GENUINE IMITATION LUCITE**"

(I know the hamburger patty/donut joke...*grin*)

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: GUEST,Noddy
Date: 25 Aug 06 - 06:03 AM

There are only TWO kinds of Farts.................................... Loud Ones and Quiet ones!

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: frogprince
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 09:21 PM

...and hamburger patties...

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 09:16 PM

Any further with this line of reasoning and I'm gonna be turned off donuts for a long time . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: bobad
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 08:34 PM

The bacteria used to ferment Limburger cheese and other rind-washed cheeses is Brevibacterium linens; this same bacteria is found on human skin and is partially responsible for human body odor. A likely reason for this is that the monks of Limburg who created the cheese would originally mix the milk and curds into cheese by stomping it with their feet.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: frogprince
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 12:37 PM

to put a yet finer point on the "suvival of the fittest": The "survivor" will be the one most apt to achieve reproduction before dying, under whatever circumstances prevail, regardless of his, her, or it's other weaknesses.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 05:33 AM

The origin of "minding your ps and qs" give is one of several that are proposed in dictionaries of hrase origins. There is no provable origin so far.

   I like interesting facts that aren't facts. 2 exx.

   1. Originally, "the survival of the fittest"(Henry Spencer) did NOT mean 'the survival of the strongest'

Originally, he meant 'the survival of the most fit",that is, the most appropriate, as in 'most fit for the purpose', which , in some circumstances coulf mean the weakest surviving.

Those stalks that are the stiffest will break before those that bend with the wind.


   2. Dr.Guillotin invcented the guillotine.

   Actually, it was invented by a mechanic called Schmidt under the direction of Dr.Antonin Louise,hence it was at first called a 'Louison' or 'Louisette'.



    Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Splott Man
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 03:53 AM

Been down so long, it looks like up to me

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Amos
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 12:34 AM

Not because your body woud change absolute direction, FP, but because you would cross the divide from one "up" to the other "up".   

I withdraw the word "even".

A

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: frogprince
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 11:05 PM

"The answer to the CHina Syndrome question is that you would come out with your head pointing up, even if you entered the hole with your head pointing down"

Amos, think a little more; you're right, of course, in that when you come out of the hole on the other side, you are going "up", away from the earth's center of gravity. But that doesn't mean you would come out head up , unless you entered the hole with your head pointing down; not "even if" you entered head down. Passing through the center wouldn't necessarily imply that you would flip end-for-end on the way. I think I gotcha!

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 08:48 PM

Farts can't smell.

They don't have noses.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 05:05 PM

7 out of 10 women are wearing the wrong bra size (according to a sign in the changing rooms in Debenhams last week)

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Amos
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 05:05 PM

Well, that's a semantic quibble.

The answer to the CHina Syndrome question is that you would come out with your head pointing up, even if you entered the hole with your head pointing down, because that's the nature of "up". It means (in this usage) "away from the center of mass causing the dominant gravitic field". Down means toward the center of mass.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 03:10 PM

Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"?

A. One thousand

One hundred and one!